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HPCx User Mailing 077 22 July 2005
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Contents
** Courses in August
** Report on User Group meeting
** EPCC Workshop: Blue Gene and QCDOC: Next Generation of HPC
Architecture
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Greetings--
COURSES IN AUGUST
We're running three courses at EPCC in August - see below. All are
free for UK-based academics. Please note that this is a very busy
time in Edinburgh, so if you are coming and need somewhere to stay
avernight, you'd be well advised to book as soon as possible. Here
is a list of places to stay in the vicinity:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/contact_us/accommodation/
To register for these course, please use the standard registration
form:
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/form.html
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INTRODUCTION TO HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Monday, August 22, 2005 at EPCC, Edinburgh
This course looks at the ways that High Performance Computing
techniques can be used to address problems in Computational Science.
It introduces the basic concepts of parallel computing, outlines the
hardware design of modern HPC platforms and looks at the parallel
programming models that they support.
Further details:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/computing/training/courses/course_summaries/HPCconcepts_summary.html
Note that only material from the first day will be covered.
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JAVA FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Tuesday-Wednesda, August 23-24, 2005 at EPCC, Edinburgh
This course focuses on the object-oriented programming language Java5
and its use in HPC. The potential benefits of Java for HPC will be
described, and issues such as performance, numerics and parallel
programming paradigms considered. Performance studies of Java against
more traditional procedural HPC languages will be presented. Students
will develop parallel Java applications and learn about threads,
OpenMP, message-passing and RMI.
Further details:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/computing/training/courses/course_summaries/OOforHPC_summary.html
Note that only material from the days 2 and 3 will be covered.
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PRACTICAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Monday-Thursdy, August 29-September 1 2005 at EPCC Edinburgh
This four-day course looks at the tools and techniques which are
important for enhancing the efficiency of the software engineering
process from initial design to testing. The focus of the course is on
the application of practical techniques allowing students effectively
to develop, test and maintain high quality, portable code. The course
will provide students with valuable software skills which are vital in
the fields of computational science and engineering.
Further details:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/computing/training/courses/course_summaries/SoftDev_summary.html
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REPORT ON USER GROUP MEETING
A meeting of the HPCx User Group took place at 12:30 on 20 July, 2005,
using the Access Grid. Despite some technical difficulties, five sites
took part, with a total of 23 people visible on screen, ten of whom
were HPCx staff members.
A report on the meeting can be found here:
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/about/events/user_group.html
The PowerPoint slides used for the two presentations are also on the
website.
David Henty: Task farms:
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/about/events/user_group/HPCxTaskfarms.ppt
Ian Bush: xlf ver 9:
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/about/events/user_group/UGxlf9.ppt
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EPCC WORKSHOP: BLUE GENE AND QCDOC: NEXT GENERATION OF HPC ARCHITECTURE
National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh
Tuesday-Thursday, 4-6 October, 2005
The first IBM e-Server Blue Gene system in Europe was delivered to
EPCC in December 2004. The University of Edinburgh has also recently
installed a QCDOC machine, providing one of the world's most powerful
systems dedicated to the numerical investigation of Quantum
Chromodynamics. The Blue Gene and QCDOC architectures offer a
significant breakthrough in supercomputing technology, providing
unprecedented computing performance coupled with very low power
consumption, floor space and cost.
With the growing popularity of these systems, across a wide range of
applications, a workshop investigating their full potential is highly
topical. As the only centre in the world to host both a Blue Gene and
QCDOC system, the University of Edinburgh is the idea location for
such a workshop.
The workshop will be sponsored by IBM, and hosted by EPCC at the
National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
The programme comprises a series of presentations from experts users,
developers and programmers. The following speakers have been
confirmed:
* Steve Louis, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
* Kjeld van der Schaaf, ASTRON
* Henry Markram, EPFL
* Thomas Lippert, NIC, Juelich
* Andrew Siegel, Argonne National Laboratory
* Eric Kronstadt, IBM
* Arthur Trew, Director, EPCC
Registration for this event is free. For further details and to
register, please go here:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/BGworkshop/
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Regards
--John
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